[sfphotoarts]

It's fascinating watching the HN community ebb and flow around topics, there's this collective conscious that discusses programming languages (mostly) and some days the tide takes us to a heavily Pythonic view of the world, and this week we're having a c revivalist movement.

I thinking writing a system to identify topics on HN day after day and try to correlate this with other events might be interesting, is it for example all reactionary, is it some form of herding, does it follow topics on other similar forums, or just pseudo-random.

Back to the topic. There is one definitive C resource, K&R.

[mmastrac]

K&R doesn't cover c99, which makes C far less annoying to write in, IMHO.

Unfortunately I don't have a good, comprehensive reference for c99 to offer up myself.

[parenthesis]

The excellent, C: A Reference Manual (5th edition) covers C99.

http://www.careferencemanual.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/...

[nitrogen]

The C99 standard itself and corresponding Wikipedia pages are quite useful. The gcc manual is also a handy reference for determining whether a particular gcc feature is standard compliant.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=filetype%3Apdf+iso+9899

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99

[reirob]

Funny that only 2 commercial compilers are fully supporting C99 standard: IBM Rational logiscope >= 6.4 and Sun Studio.